Now taking nominations for the 2019 Veeam Innovation Awards for Veeam Partners

The nomination window for the 2019 Veeam Innovation Awards for Partners is closing in a few days, so we’re taking a minute to highlight some of the VIA 2018 winners announced earlier this year with a few VCSPs.

At VeeamON 2018 in Chicago we held our inaugural Veeam Innovation Awards or VIAs. The idea behind the awards where to highlight our partners that do great things with great technology. Veeam has long offered our partners the ability to innovate on top of our core product set. This is most evident in our Veeam Cloud and Service Provider community where being able to differentiate among providers can mean the difference between success and failure in an industry that is ultra-competitive.

Having come from a successful VCSP in Australia where I worked alongside developers to create services based on the Veeam Backup & Replication platform I understand what it takes to develop and integrate Veeam into service offerings. In fact, having spent the majority of my career working within the Service Provider space I made sure that I was aware of what my competitors where doing. I often did research to find out how their innovations where stacking up to ours. There is a lot of intellectual property that goes into developing services, however we all start with the same base.

In the case of Veeam, what we offer today is a powerful platform that offers service providers immense flexibility, performance and reliability on which to offer cloud-based data protection. Weather this be for Infrastructure VMs, Backup as a Service/Replication as a Service through Cloud Connect or more recently backup for Office 365, our providers have been able to leverage Veeam’s automation functionality using our APIs and PowerShell commandlets to integrate those services into their own cloud management platforms.

With that, it’s no surprise that VCSPs featured heavily in the inaugural VIAs…

Probax

Probax is a VCSP headquartered out of Perth, Western Australia and are 100% reseller focused. Having already integrated Veeam Cloud Connect into their MSP reseller portal they created the Honeycomb VTL Archive product which leverages Veeam Backup Copy jobs taking GFS backup chains and moving them to low cost storage…all managed through the Probax Web Console. They have also created a service around the backup of Office 365 leveraging Veeam’s Backup for Microsoft Office 365 which has again been directly integrated into their Web Console. They embodied the spirit of the VIA’s by looking outside the box and solving the problem of air-gapping longer-term backup files in a protected state…all through the use of Veeam’s APIs and PowerShell capabilities. Check out the Probax video.

iLand

iLand was another one of the four winners in 2018 and they took a slightly different approach with their submission having already lead the industry with their innovation around automation and provisioning of Veeam Infrastructure backups as well as offering Cloud Connect Backup & Replication services from their award winning control panel. iLand Catalyst is an in-house developed assessment tool that looks at storage requirements, latency considerations and other key metrics that enable their customer to be successful with Veeam based iLand solutions. This form of innovation looks to extend the usability of their Veeam platform to enable customers to understand how to size and plan for services effectively taking out the guess work often involved in purchasing cloud-based resources for backup and disaster recovery. Check out the iLand video.

Next week, we’ll be highlighting the other two VIA2018 awardees – SiS and Merrimac.

Once again, it’s great to see our Veeam Cloud and Service Providers leading the way in offering innovative solution based on the Veeam Availability Platform…I’m looking forward to seeing what innovations are put forward at Veeam Velocity 2019 for the second incarnation of the VIAs!.
To find out more about the 2019 VIAs or to nominate your solution, please click here.